http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Considered the "silent killer," high blood pressure affects approximately one billion people worldwide, including one in three adults in the United States. From May 15 – 18, 2013, members of the medical community from across the globe gather at the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) in San Francisco to discuss the epidemic. During the conference, more than 200 new studies about hypertension will be shared, with the goal of increasing the understanding of hypertension and one day curing it altogether. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-lowers-blood-pressure-cell-salt.html Health Wed, 15 May 2013 11:29:28 EST news287836160 Up to one-third of patients undergoing surgery in Ontario have a treatable form of anemia but are not optimally treated for it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-anemia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:44:01 EST news278264633 The way in which cancer can spread silently and unnoticed in the body—with symptoms in some cases remaining latent for months, years, or even decades—is often noted as its most deadly feature. Researchers around the world have been devising ever more sophisticated strategies to fight cancer—including 'stealth' techniques designed to outwit the body's immune system so as to deliver therapeutic drugs, genes, proteins and viruses to carefully targeted disease sites. Such approaches may help to turn the tables, enabling researchers to one day realize the ultimate goal of silencing the silent killer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cancer-stealth-techniques-tumor-growth.html Cancer Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:43:36 EST news266658206 Celebrity appeals for British men to fondle their testicles to detect early signs of cancer are a waste of time and possibly harmful, an opinion piece published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gonad-groping-brits-wont-testicle.html Cancer Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:32:13 EST news252214324 A UN-linked body launched a campaign in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at preventing deaths due to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, one of the developing world's worst public health threats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-efforts-nigeria-cookstoves.html Health Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:10:27 EST news251485812 A potential breakthrough in treating late-stage ovarian cancer has come from University of Guelph researchers who have discovered a peptide that shrinks advanced tumours and improves survival rates for this deadly but often undetected disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-discovery-late-stage-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:00:03 EST news240662556 According to scientists, carbon monoxide (CO), a tasteless, colorless and odorless gas, is not only a danger to the environment but also highly toxic to human beings. Found in the exhaust of vehicles and generators, CO has been dubbed the "silent killer" because excessive inhalation is lethal, poisoning the nervous system and heart. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-carbon-monoxide-silent-calmer.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:28:00 EST news239974073 Research being presented at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting shows that molecular imaging is helping to determine the cause and expand treatment for a silent killer. A study focusing on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—a cardiovascular disorder that causes a thickening of the heart muscle—is proving that the effects of a genetic mutation may be an important key to understanding the disease. In related research, a treatment called alcohol septal ablation is being revealed as an effective treatment for severe cases of HCM. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-molecular-imaging-genetic-heart-disease.html Medical research Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:50:03 EST news226584777